Younger hackers are hard to classify. They’re probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We’re all over the map.
Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I’m still shocked myself.
Call me bored, but don’t call me boring.
The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
It’s certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
Think of prototypes as a funny markup language – the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That’s why it’s important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.
I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
I’m just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it’s development, and some of the time it’s just goofing off.
I’m never satisfied because I’ve been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
Many days I don’t write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.
Even if you aren’t in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.
It should be illegal to yell ‘Y2K’ in a crowded economy.